There are changes coming to the Raptors front office, even if some familiar names will remain.

Maurizio Gherardini, currently the team’s senior vice-president of basketball operations, and Jim Kelly, the team’s senior director of scouting, have had their contracts extended through the 2011-12 season.

But their duties could very well change.

President and general manager Bryan Colangelo has expressed the desire to restructure the team’s hierarchy and the job descriptions of Gherardini and Kelly are expected to change — perhaps dramatically — when Colangelo finishes his housecleaning.

The president has said he wants to bring in a new face to the front office in some senior capacity, perhaps with the title of general manager, and that search continues.

I believe he's going to eliminate all roles completely. Nobody has titles. Everybody does everything, everybody does nothing. Accountability is dispersed yet unnecessary. No walls, no lines, just business. Genius.

The Raptors just extended the contract of the lead scout (Jim Kelly) yesterday. So no change for another year probably.

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Maurizio Gherardini, currently the teamís senior vice-president of basketball operations, and Jim Kelly, the teamís senior director of scouting, have had their contracts extended through the 2011-12 season.

I believe he's going to eliminate all roles completely. Nobody has titles. Everybody does everything, everybody does nothing. Accountability is dispersed yet unnecessary. No walls, no lines, just business. Genius.

Kevin Pritchard rules. Bad mistake on Blazers part. Dude's assistant porked the mascot in the cafeteria, and KP tried to hide it, or some stupid shit like that went down.

Dude knows young talent, we wouldn't be in the playoffs if he didn't put our team together.

While he may rule, he isn't without warts. You can't say objectively that Oden doesn't stand on his record as a huge gaffe, and not trading Roy at some point with all of his medical history is another missed opportunity (though not necessarily an obvious one).

There were other pieces brought in that haven't lived up to expectations either, including Rudy, Batum, Andre Miller, Bayless..... not saying they are all failures, but definitely show less impressively on his record. I apologize if he wasn't in charge of all those pieces.

While he may rule, he isn't without warts. You can't say objectively that Oden doesn't stand on his record as a huge gaffe, and not trading Roy at some point with all of his medical history is another missed opportunity (though not necessarily an obvious one).

There were other pieces brought in that haven't lived up to expectations either, including Rudy, Batum, Andre Miller, Bayless..... not saying they are all failures, but definitely show less impressively on his record. I apologize if he wasn't in charge of all those pieces.

You gotta realize how bad the Blazers were when KP got hired. We were coming off a season setting a new record by losing 4 games in a row by 35 or more, and Ruben Patterson was our go to guy in the 4th.

Our front office worked like an underground family mob of Paul Allen money suckers "working" for our organization. Between the Pritch and Larry Miller, they bundled up 2/3 of our salary employees and tossed them into the Willamette River.

KP's starting hand was a 7, 2 off-suit, and he bluffed his way through drafts and trades to make us a playoff team once again.

Oden having bad luck with injury is not KP's fault. Oden would've been drafted #1 by most every team. It's not like the Sam Bowie draft, where Bowie was supposed to go between 6-12, and Portland passed on Jordan using their #2 pick on Bowie.

You gotta realize how bad the Blazers were when KP got hired. We were coming off a season setting a new record by losing 4 games in a row by 35 or more, and Ruben Patterson was our go to guy in the 4th.

Our front office worked like an underground family mob of Paul Allen money suckers "working" for our organization. Between the Pritch and Larry Miller, they bundled up 2/3 of our salary employees and tossed them into the Willamette River.

KP's starting hand was a 7, 2 off-suit, and he bluffed his way through drafts and trades to make us a playoff team once again.

Oden having bad luck with injury is not KP's fault. Oden would've been drafted #1 by most every team. It's not like the Sam Bowie draft, where Bowie was supposed to go between 6-12, and Portland passed on Jordan using their #2 pick on Bowie.

First off, never slam the Kobe stopper...... loved watching that Blazers team. They got jobbed in one playoff series....

Oden/Durant was a 60/40 situation.... he chose wrong, even given the one leg longer than the other and injury history...

While he did alot of good, he also had some major gaffes. It's the nature of the job. There isn't a GM out there that is perfect.